CANNIBALISM. 



" Heu quantum scelus est, in viscera viscera condi ; 

 Conges toque aviduin, pinguescere corpore corpus." 



If, in the strict sense of the word, by cannibalism 

 is meant, the ordinary feeding of man upon man, 

 incited solely by the call of hunger ; then, in my 

 humble opinion, there is no such phenomenon to 

 be found. Did such a thing really exist, the very 

 act would indeed reduce the exalted rank of man 

 to a very inferior state. Tigers, known to be so 

 sanguinary, never feed on tigers. If animals w r ere 

 to eat animals of their own species, there would 

 soon be an end to the breed altogether. 



The Roman poet in his amusing account of 

 the creation, has given most justly to man, a 

 character which raises him far above the level 

 of all animals. He tells us, that after these 

 had received their existence, there still was wanting 

 an animal of superior intellect, to hold dominion 

 over all the rest ; and man was then created. 



"Sanctius his animal, mentisque capacius altse, 



